Thoughts about our Creator

Our Lord God has been involved in our lives from the beginning of Creation. He has known us before our birth and has helped us in all that we do and will do in turning to Him. No matter what treacherous storms come upon us, He is there and will be in the future. We look forward to spending eternity with Him.

Psalm 90:1-2 speaks to us in saying, “Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.  Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

As we stand in God’s shadow that He casts from His resting place, we live in His security. Nothing can separate us from Him and this is our comfort no matter what happens to our physical presence and existence on Earth. God’s care for us is an easy task for Him as His strength controls all things and our defense is guaranteed.

Long before our Earth’s place in creation and its features and were determined, our Lord and God has been with us and His everlasting presence is eternal with us. God’s time is unlike our worldly time. It knows no beginning or end. The beginning of His creation is like a yesterday to Him. The limits of our sequential time have no affect on God’s time.

We, the children of God, are always in the today, the now. We don’t exist in yesterday or in tomorrow, so all our efforts should be directed to the present moment of life lived. Like the waters of a river, our today keeps moving from upstream to downstream, never resting in the same place.

God is our hope for our today’s to come.  He guides us while we live our lives and takes us into His presence when this life is done. It is then we turn our clocks to God’s Time, which is eternal.    

The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is like a huge rock in the middle of the ocean. The gospel rock is our salvation. The ocean currents are the natural world's pull on us. If we spend all of our time swimming in the surf or floating in our raft we drift away from the gospel and the Lord. There is nothing out in the vast ocean that can save us. If there is trouble we must get back to the gospel rock. If we drift too far out from the rock and into the strong ocean currents, we will pay a price. Our safety is on the rock. The ocean's waters may be enticing, but our true salvation is on the rock.

When I compare life to this metaphor of the gospel rock in the ocean I can get a better view of the situation that we are all in. We live most of our lives in the surf around the gospel island rock. We live out in the surf because of our sinful nature. The abuse of our God given free will moves us off of the island and into the surf.

Jesus the Christ has provided us a way out of our sin by His invitation to come back to the island rock, which is covered with the fruit of the gospel. We have become comfortable living in the surf and we enjoy our journeys out into the deep. We have been offered an opportunity to come back to shore, but we are slow to return because we figure that it will always be there. We risk everything by allowing ourselves to be moved by the currents in the ocean world. We spend most of our existence trying to get out of troublesome situations that the worldly currents have put us in. We must quickly start swimming to Shore.

In Paul’s letter to the Hebrews 2:1-10 we hear:

"Therefore we must pay greater attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. For if the message declared through angels was valid, and every transgression or disobedience received a just penalty, how can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?"